Part memoir, part spiritual testimony, part artistic manifesto, Dear Senthuran abandons the conventions of autobiography in favour of a series of letters addressed to friends, lovers, collaborators and fellow writers.

Across them, Akwaeke Emezi reflects on becoming a public writer after Freshwater, the demands of creativity, Blackness, transness, publishing, friendship, faith and the difficult work of refusing identities imposed from the outside. The book unfolds as an intimate philosophy of living and making.

What distinguishes Dear Senthuran is the way Emezi treats spirituality not as metaphor but as lived reality. The memoir is deeply rooted in Igbo cosmology and questions of embodiment, autonomy and artistic vocation, making it as much a work of metaphysical inquiry as personal narrative. Fierce, lucid and uncompromising, it sits comfortably alongside writers like Ocean Vuong, Audre Lorde and Clarice Lispector, while remaining entirely its own strange and compelling thing.

Faber and Faber first edition paperback. Very good condition with clean pages and light shelf wear.